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Toni Schneider

Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform. He won the 2007 Crunchies Award for ‘Best Startup CEO’.

In addition to Automattic, Toni is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Toni was a co-founder of Sphere (acquired by AOL) and serves on the Board of Directors of Bandcamp and Vodpod. Prior to Automattic/True Ventures, Toni was CEO of Oddpost before it was acquired by Yahoo. At Yahoo, Toni was a key executive behind the creation of the Yahoo Developer Network.

Toni grew up in Switzerland at Lake Zurich and moved 1989 to California.

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